Mr. Nobody

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife Elise and their three children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore.

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A nine-year-old boy facing an impossible decision, and knowing all the possible outcomes from all the decisions he makes; should he go with his mom or stay with his Dad? It all really depends on what kind of life he wants to live. Nemo Nobody is the last mortal person living on earth. This amazing film is like nothing I've ever seen before, the concept is entirely new to me. However, I hated all the jump-cuts going from different timelines, it's really confusing, but all in all, I like the film for its story and especially the ending.
- @Florence of the Teen Review Board of the Hamilton Public Library

A very good film- I think it's underrated when people call it whimsical or pretentiously 'smart' or simply a weird artistic movie. There's a lot more to it than that. If Inception, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind and Cloud Atlas had a baby, it would be this movie. It does have an intellectual/ analytical feel which is not everyone's cup of tea, but it also had enough touchy-feely young love arch in the plot-which was a bit of an eye roll if you're not into that. The main character Nemo was interesting enough that you want to see his story through.

This movie was almost a waste of time. They had a good idea,but they almost ruined it.The main character's story track keeps jumping from one choice 's result to another and the only warning you get sometimes is a bunch of blurred Train Tracks. They had a lot of potential with this story,but they trashed it. If they would of had a bigger budget they could have made something worthy of watching.

The potential was there, but the execution failed as the film was overly Hetero-Centric with a romance heavy leaning. Every choice was the same (hetero-romantic). The butterfly effect, Mars, making choices are all valid points of study, but I felt like I was watching a teen hetero coming of age film. It got boring.

This movie came out in 2009 and I hadn't heard about it until 2016 - that's a lie - I hadn't heard about it at all, I just discovered it and gave it a spin. What a great film!
Visually stunning. Cerebral. Captures young love without going to nudity. Leaves more questions than answers. Interesting and lovely, this film never lets you stop wondering.
What is it about? That is unanswerable as is the identity of Mr. Nobody.

I didn't really *truly* know what the hell took place in this film until I got writer/director Jaco Van Dormael's explanation in the special features. It's in his infinite wisdom to dumbfound the viewer. I wasn't overly fond of the chaotic puzzle, but I get the point; the power of choice. Great cast and visuals, though.

Great sci-fi/drama movie. If you do not like none-linear story telling, do not watch it. If you can enjoy a story not told in a linear way, with multiple points of view, then you will enjoy it.
The music is beautiful and the visuals are astonishing: from regular day scenes to interplanetary trips.
This is a beautiful movie.

This jumps around very much like Slaughterhouse-Five, but between parallel timelines branching from an as yet unmade choice. The concept also has some vague elements from A.I., The Time Traveller's Wife, About Time and Sliding Doors ... most of which were better movies with better plots. Btw, the protagonist's name Nemo Nobody is an example of pleonasm ("nemo" is Latin for "nobody") and evokes the famous tale of Polyphemus and Odysseus, part of a larger quasi-pilgrimage filled with decisions and consequences. Kurt Vonnegut's protagonist, of course, was named Billy Pilgrim.

Mother: "That's not possible. No one knows the future."
Nemo: "But I can remember it."
Mother: "You remember the past, not the future."
Nemo: "But me, I can. Sometimes things happen and I have the feeling that they've already happened before."
Mother: "Well, that's deja-vu. It happens to everyone from time to time."
Nemo: "No. It's because of the Angels of Oblivion. They didn't put their finger on me."